Mother and Child

Directed by: Rodrigo Garcia

Written By: ­­Rodrigo Garcia

Opens: May 7, 2010

In Daniel Gilbert’s 2006 book “Stumbling on Happiness,” the Harvard professor of psychology looks at several studies and concludes that marital satisfaction decreases dramatically after the birth of the first child-and increases only when the last child has left home. He also ascertains that parents are happier grocery shopping and even sleeping to spending time with their kids. Other data cited by 2008’s “Gross National Happiness” author, Arthur C. Brooks, finds that parents are about seven percentage points less likely to report being happy than the childless.